The Arizona champion., 1887-12-31
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER ,r, 1887
A Good Suggestion.

VIC aSh OuI iOIdl SloSh aSsOSieeiohs
 10 unite and drive out the thieves who have been robbing honest stock
 raisers Tn the country east of Verde river. They will find it more profita- b.e than discussing the so.called"
 Texas Rode, ,"- Courier.
 The above suggestion from the
 Prescott COnritr is a good one SO far
 as it goes, but it does. not 90 far enough. While we agree with MT.
 Marion, the editor of the Con,ftr,
 that there is nothing to be gained in
 discussing the so.called "Texas
 Rode" we believe that there is some
 thing to be gained in holding the
 men who created it to strict accoun- liability for their acts. With the
 Cou,ier we would "ask our local stock
 associations to unite and drive out
 the thieves who have been robbing
 honest stock raisers east of the Verde
 river," but we would also ask that the men who aided and abetted in in cooperating herd law in the Revised
 Statutes of Arizona, while they cast
 aside the old fence laws of the Terri
 tory. be held responsible for their
 acts. That they, when the time comes,
 be required 10 show cause why such
 a law finds place among the statutes
 of Arizona. While it may not be
 profitable to now discuss the"So call ed Texas Kode," as the Coz,Ttr des. cribes it, are not the stockmen to be permitted to raise their voice in pro
 testations against the special live stock cattle tax which they are day
 throughout Arizona called on to meet and pay or have their property sold for the same under the sheriff's hammer. "The thieves who have been Tobbing honest stockraisers in the country east ofthe Verde rIver," are
 bad, but neither they nor any other class of stock thieves that ever cursed Arizona, have robbed the stockmen
 of the Territory out of one-tenth the
 amount that is now being unjusly ta ken from them under color of the special cattle tax law imposed on our already oyer-taxed stockgTowers by the "so-caled Texas Rode" IL may be well enough for the C0u,ytr to foist the "Kode" on Texas, but we for one protest against the chiyalric Lone Star State being made to bear ihe odium of enacting a code of law that has, like the Arizona code, sin gled out any special set of men to bear the scourge of such persecution as that volume imposes on the stock men of this territory. Whatever else may be said of Texas, its love of fair play and justice cannot be impesched, and if the Revised Statutes of Arizona lad been Texan product. it would lot, as 1t now does, favor the rich at ihe expense of the poor, by raising the interest on county warrants, re ,tiucing the legal exemptions allowed the unfortunate poor in their days oi diversity, by raising the poll and road taxes to double their old amount III order that the burden of taxation Iaay fall more heavily on the poor man, hy taking away the right of re demption in order that the money lenders of the Territory might have dealhless grip on any man So unior- tunate as 10 be forced to mortgage his property; and hundred other similar enaciments that brands the | makers of the "Kode" not as men | worthy of that state founded and ce- Iuented with the blood of the Alamo, but as men willing to fall down and grovel in the dust before the moneyed l ,Shylncks of the Territory. by prosti- tuling their high position as legisla. tOis 10 enact laws Tn favor of the rich, no matter how burdensomr they might | | C to the poor. It is for the punish mrnI of these men, who, while en. trusted with the place and power of law makers, have seen fit 10 betray their fellow citizens in order to stand | well with the mere money bags fthe | Territory, as we'll as for the punish. u,n; of '.the thieves who have been honest stock-rsisers in the country east of the Verde river. "that the s'ockmen of the Territory should | T II